[kentonv]

I once got a recruiting e-mail from comma.ai and the tone was very much acting like obviously I want to work for George Hotz and I'm so lucky he's willing to chat with me so what time should we schedule the meeting? I'd never heard of him nor the company and it all seemed very pretentious. They also sent it to my work address, which is not exactly classy.

To be fair, it was probably a bad recruiter, not George's fault, but that's now the memory that comes to mind whenever I heard comma.ai or George Hotz mentioned. Be warned, founders.

[sjcoles]

No, that's on brand. George is a person I'd love to have a conversation with or, hell, work with but could never work for.

I have had a Comma 2 for a while and the Discord has soured me to the company a bit. Lets leave it at that.

[elevenoh]

How so?

It's a refreshingly absurd, curious & blunt community.

[sjcoles]

I'm in quite a number of different highly technical discords and none are quite like comma's. I mean that in the most scathing way possible unfortunately.

Disagreement and dissatisfaction are carefully curated and manicured to make it seem much more friendly, and put certain people in a much better light, than in reality. I've never seen so many posts deleted and users banned.

[georgehotz]

This kind of crap is exactly why we stopped using recruiters. I hate e-mails like that too, and they aren't even effective.